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Bug#324109: marked as done (allow Packages file to specify downloads from other hosts)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:53:13 +0200
with message-id <20150814215313.GA6626@crossbow>
and subject line Re: Bug#324109: allow Packages file to specify downloads from other hosts
has caused the Debian Bug report #324109,
regarding allow Packages file to specify downloads from other hosts
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.40.1
Severity: wishlist

Please, could you allow for Packages file to specify that a package should be
downloaded from a specific host, not necessarily the one we got Packages.gz
from?

The "Filename:" tag could be used for that.  For example:

  Filename: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/3/3dchess/3dchess_0.8.1-11_i386.deb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.1-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.1-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:19:32PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote on 20/08/2005 11:13:
> > Please, could you allow for Packages file to specify that a package should be
> > downloaded from a specific host, not necessarily the one we got Packages.gz
> > from?
> >
> > The "Filename:" tag could be used for that.  For example:
> >
> >   Filename: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/3/3dchess/3dchess_0.8.1-11_i386.deb
> 
> What would that be useful for?
> You can't guarantee that whoever uses your repository also has access to
> the file at some other repository. And if he has, why shouldn't he use
> that repository directly?
> Also, you might run into problems when the remote repository gets moved
> (so the old URL to the repository doesn't work anymore or updated (so
> that the referenced file gets removed).
> 
> All in all, my opinion is that this would cause a lot more trouble than
> it could possibly save, so I don't think this should be implemented.

I agree with this reasoning and therefore close the bug as wontfix.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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